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Feds Pan Nadine Menendez's Bail Bid Months After Appeal

By Carla Baranauckas

Prosecutors have urged a New York federal judge to reject a bid by Nadine Menendez for bail while she appeals her bribery and corruption conviction, saying her argument falls short of the high bar for release.

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Exec For Former SI Publisher Tells Jury He's Owed Severance

By Pete Brush

A New Jersey executive who worked for the financially strapped former publisher of Sports Illustrated told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday that he is owed potentially $2 million after his firing, but the former publisher countered that he was terminated for cause.

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NJ Panel Won't Nix Plumber's $2M Injury Trial Win

By Mike Curley

A New Jersey appeals court on Tuesday rejected a contractor's bid to throw out a $2 million verdict won by a plumber in an injury suit, saying the contractor could not object to jury instructions that it accepted at trial just because its trial strategy backfired.

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Lender Asks If Weed Co. Cash-Seizure Ban Applies At Maturity

By George Woolston

A lender has asked a New Jersey federal court whether an order that blocked it from seizing a cannabis company's assets or cash amid a dispute over whether the company defaulted on loans applies to any default over the failure to pay the principal and interest due at maturity.

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NJ Panel Finds Ski Act Blocks Snow Tubing Injury Suit

By Mike Curley

A New Jersey appeals panel has dismissed with prejudice a suit from a man injured while snow tubing at a Bergen County site, finding the state's Ski Act applies to snow tubing and overrides his common law claims.

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NJ Panel Rejects Arbitration In Wrongful Death Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

A staffing company and New Jersey's public transportation provider must face in court claims they negligently caused a vehicle crash that killed a woman, a state appeals court ruled, saying there isn't proper evidence to support the claim the woman signed an arbitration clause.

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POLICY & REGULATION

DOT Releases $4.7B To Aid Upgrades At Penn, Union Stations

By Nate Beck

The U.S. Department of Transportation said Monday it will invest $4.7 billion into rail improvement projects in Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, including rehabilitations for New York's Penn Station and Washington, D.C.'s Union Station.

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BANKRUPTCY

Bills Sinking 'Texas Two-Step' Ch. 11 Cases Reintroduced

By Clara Geoghegan

Members of Congress have reintroduced bipartisan legislation meant to deter so-called Texas two-step Chapter 11s, a controversial maneuver companies have used to address mass tort liabilities in bankruptcy.

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LITIGATION

Analysis

IP Notebook: Global Copyright, ChatGPT TM, Rogers Test

By Ivan Moreno

This round of Law360's look at emerging copyright and trademark issues includes a forthcoming U.S. Supreme Court appeal with global implications for copyrights, and OpenAI's setback in its effort to register "ChatGPT" as a trademark.

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Live Nation Fails In Bid For Quick Nix Of Antitrust Damages

By Matthew Perlman

A New York federal court has refused to rule immediately on Live Nation's bid to strike expert testimony and set aside the damages awarded to state enforcers in the antitrust case accusing the company of monopolizing the live entertainment industry.

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Oregon Environmentalists Join ICE Detention Center Fight

By Isaac Monterose

An Oregon federal judge on Tuesday allowed two environmental groups to intervene as plaintiffs in a consolidated suit filed by the state and one of its cities, which are challenging a proposed federal immigrant detention center planned to be built near an airport.

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Fed. Circ. Keeps Banner Witcoff And Saiber Off Patent Case

By Elliot Weld

The Federal Circuit kept intact the disqualification of two law firms from a patent ownership fight on Tuesday, saying it had not been shown a district judge made a clear error in removing them.

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Brief

Feds Drop 1st Circ. Homelessness Funding Appeal

By George Woolston

Three weeks after the First Circuit declined to pause two orders blocking the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from cutting homelessness funding, HUD has dropped its appeal.

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ENFORCEMENT

Brief

Purdue Pharma Sentencing Punted For In-Person Attendance

By Clara Geoghegan

A New Jersey federal judge delayed Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma's criminal sentencing by a week, saying rescheduling would give an in-person attendance option to hundreds of observers who tuned in virtually Tuesday.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On ESI Control

Several recent federal court decisions have perpetuated a split over what constitutes “control” of electronically stored information — with judges divided on whether the standard should turn on a party's legal right or practical ability to obtain the information, say attorneys at Sidley.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Some Firms Break Lobbying Revenue Records Again

By Alison Knezevich

After raking in record-breaking federal lobbying revenue last year, several firms reported this week that they had their strongest quarter ever in the first three months of 2026, with practice leaders predicting another busy period ahead as midterms approach.

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Breyer Says 'Shadow Docket' Not A Top Court Power Grab

By Carolyn Muyskens

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said Tuesday that the rise of the so-called shadow docket is a consequence of the post-COVID era and not a bid to usurp influence by the high court. 

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Sullivan & Cromwell Alerts SDNY To AI Errors In Ch. 15 Case

By Andrea Keckley

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP told a New York bankruptcy judge Saturday that an emergency motion it filed in Prince Global Holdings Ltd.'s Chapter 15 case contained several inaccurate citations and other errors, including what the firm described as artificial intelligence "hallucinations."

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Pillsbury Unlawfully Fired Pregnant Recruiter, Bias Suit Says

By Lauren Berg

The former Black female director for associate recruiting at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP says she was unlawfully fired just weeks after disclosing her high-risk pregnancy to her supervisor, according to her discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed Tuesday in Tennessee federal court.

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WDTX Judge Albright Stepping Down At End Of Summer

By Dani Kass

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright is resigning after nearly eight years presiding over cases in the Western District of Texas, Law360 confirmed Tuesday.

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Ex-Wis. Judge Argues ICE Case Reversal Backs Her Acquittal

By Craig Clough

Former state Judge Hannah Dugan asked a Wisconsin federal judge Tuesday to reconsider an order not to overturn her felony obstruction conviction for directing a defendant in her courtroom away from immigration agents, arguing the Fourth Circuit recently reversed a decision the trial court repeatedly relied upon.

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Warsh Rejects Claim He'd Be Trump's 'Sock Puppet' At Fed

By Jon Hill

Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh sought at his Tuesday confirmation hearing to rebut Democratic accusations that he would be a White House "sock puppet," distancing himself from President Donald Trump's calls for rate cuts and downplaying their significance.

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Copyright Head Touts 6,000 Registrations Of Human-AI Works

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. Copyright Office has issued more than 6,000 registrations for works that incorporate artificial intelligence-generated materials and follow the agency's guidance for combined human-made and AI-created works, U.S. Copyright Office leader Shira Perlmutter said Tuesday.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akin Gump

Banner Witcoff

Boies Schiller

Bracewell LLP

Brownstein Hyatt

Capehart Scatchard

Cozen O'Connor

Cravath Swaine

DLA Piper

Davis Saperstein

Dynamis LLP

Eversheds Sutherland

Fish & Richardson

Freeman Mathis

Gimbel Reilly

Golomb Legal

Gray Cary

Hegge & Confusione

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Hueston McNulty

Just Food Law PLLC

K&L Gates

Kobre & Kim

Latham & Watkins

Marino Tortorella

McBrayer PLLC

Pashman Stein

Pillsbury Winthrop

Quinn Emanuel

Rosenberg Fortuna

Saiber LLC

Sidley Austin

Smith & Downey

Squire Patton

Stoll Berne

Strang Bradley

Sullivan & Cromwell

Willkie Farr

Winston & Strawn

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Abiomed Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations

American Postal Workers Union

BGR Government Affairs LLC

BMG Rights Management GmbH

Ballard Partners Inc.

Corizon Health Inc.

Cox Communications Inc.

Crag Law Center

Democracy Forward Foundation

FCA US LLC

FIRST

Georgia-Pacific LLC

Harvard University

Jack Daniel's Properties Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Maquet GmbH

Marriott International Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Minute Media

National Association of Consumer Advocates

National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys

National Homelessness Law Center

Netflix Inc.

New Jersey Transit Corp.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Public Rights Project

Purdue Pharma LP

Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Executive Office of the President

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Judicial Conference of the United States

National Labor Relations Board

National Railroad Passenger Corp.

New Jersey Court

New Jersey Supreme Court

Oregon Department of Justice

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Rhode Island

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Coast Guard

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin